I need further HDD advice before submitting order.
Joel
rees at ddcom.co.jp
Wed May 11 23:48:55 PDT 2005
On Wed, 11 May 2005 13:15:52 -0600
"Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad at shire.net> wrote
>
> On May 11, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> > One more thing. Do not use the socalled 'dangerously dedicated'
> > disk setup.
> > Just make one regular slice on each disk that uses all of the disk.
> > Then partition those slices. You won't notice the difference in
> > amount of available disk and you might save yourself some headaces
> > later on.
> >
>
> I am interested in what sorts of problems and headaches can come
> later on...
>
> Assume a server that is FreeBSD only and will never have linux or
> Winbloze or anything else on it.
Diagnostics tools that expect DOS-style BIOS-level partitioning?
Maybe it's just handwaving, but what's the size of the partition record,
compared to the size of the drive?
--
Joel Rees <rees at ddcom.co.jp>
digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム
Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800
** <http://www.ddcom.co.jp> **
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list